You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.